What, No Golf This Weekend? *Open Thread*

Well, heck, there is no strategy to deal with ISIS, and a strategy to do nothing with Ukraine, so why no golf for the Golfer in Chief?

Oh, it isn’t what you think. He isn’t hunkering down with his National Security Team, or Foreign Policy Advisers. Nope. He is going to the wedding of the person responsible for Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign, Sam Kass, and a news host on the Mostly Sycophantic News (for) Barack Channel, Alex Wagner. When he’s not fundraising, that is.

[…] Stifling herself momentarily as White House Correspondent Ed Henry made the dramatic announcement, she sarcastically referred to it with her next guest, Marc Thiessen, by saying, “Really? He’s gonna take a time out from all the work he’s been doing in the Vineyard to go do some fundraising while we consider whether we need to bomb Syria?”

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“What’s he doing going to a Democratic fundraiser when we’re going to bomb Syria?” she asked. When (PennyP Lee began to sputter that the White House travels with the president Kelly let loose, “Oh c’mon, stop,” inferring she did not want to hear that drivel.

Lee, smiled broadly, knew that she was in a pickle, and said that the optics weren’t great, but Kelly didn’t want to hear that bunkum either, and exhorted, “It’s the actual behavior! Get back and start governing!…What’s he doing?” […] (Click here to read the rest.)

The Islamic State is a force for evil that poses an imminent security threat to the United States, but please, let us get back to you on whether we’re determined to defeat it.

That is the posture of the Obama administration toward the terror group that proudly demonstrated its malevolence by beheading American journalist James Foley in a propaganda video.

For the administration, the Islamic State isn’t merely a dire enemy, it is a dilemma.

President Obama must respond to a group that — with its resources, apocalyptic vision and Western recruits — is clearly a threat to the homeland, at the same time he wants nothing to do with Iraq in particular or any new military intervention in general.

The default Obama strategy, then, will be to do the minimum necessary not to be accused of allowing ISIS to run riot. […] (Click here to read the rest of this good piece.)

[…] Fifty-four percent of the public says Obama is “not tough enough” when it comes to foreign policy. The recent crises seem to have taken a toll, as that’s up 13 points from September 2012, and up three points from November 2013.

One of those crises is the spread of the militant group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Sixty-seven percent say the group is a “major threat” to the U.S.

That’s more than the 59 percent for Iran’s nuclear program, 53 percent for tensions between Russia and neighbors, 48 percent for China and 48 percent again for climate change. (Click here to read the rest.)

Meanwhile, I just finished watching PM Cameron go off on ISIS and the very real threat they pose.(Edited to add videos.) Suffice it to say, it is a STARTLING difference. Startling. Here is the complete video of Cameron’s speech:

If you don’t have time to watch the entire speech, this one sums it up pretty well:

What I wouldn’t give for a real leader for the United States instead of the Poseur in Chief we have now…

Ain’t that the truth, Marge. It is really astonishing. I saw this morning that ABC, CBS, and NBC did not report at ALL abt the IRS scrubbing Lois Lerner’s Blackberry despite the fact she, and the IRS, were already under investigation. Not one word by any of them abt this clear violation of the law to cover up this scandal. Appalling.

What in the hell is WRONG with him?? Seriously – that is just asinine for him to say such a thing. And it begs the question: Why AREN’T we at war with ISIS??? As you noted, they sure as hell are at war with us, and they are at war with American citizens all over the world.

There is something seriously, seriously wrong with Obama. He is endangering our country, and our people.

That is a huge issue. I mean, it is bad enough that the borders are more porous than Swiss cheese. They can easily get in that way. But when they have PASSPORTS that allow them access, you know it is only a matter of time, especially since they are already agitating for lone wolves to target the US (Times Square being one of the places they listed).

Obama reminds me of the Aesop fable, the Grasshopper and the Ants. While the ants are industrious and go about storing food for lean times, the grasshopper basically plays all day. So while ISIS has been recruiting,training,invading and beheading, Obama is busy playing golf, partying with the 1% types at fundraisers and attending weddings. What could possibly go wrong?

YES, she is like reporters used to be. And I do – I remember the Woodwards and Bernsteins, but where the hell are they now?? Where are those intrepid reporters who will go to any length, regardless of what the outcome is, to bring the news to the people? Not those bozos like we have now who run with rumors they don’t even bother to check on the internet. And who have a political agenda like the JournoListers. Sadly, they are few and far between. And even then, some oft he great ones, like Attkisson, lose their jobs BECAUSE they go where the information leads, not the political bent the higher ups want the stories to have.

Oh, good grief – yes, you are absolutely right, you Texans and others of us KNEW this was going to happen as a result of Obama’s border policies.

And it really makes one wonder abt those border policies, doesn’t it? We aren’t at war with ISIS, apparently, and we have left the borders wide open for them to drive on through now. SURELY someone in the Administration had a clue abt this – surely. I mean, if the rest of us could see this coming a mile away, SURELY someone in the Administration said, “Uh, ya know, Mr. President, if you open the borders wide, that means all KINDS of people will be coming through, right?”

Of course, then he would have called them a right-wing Republican and thrown them out so I guess it wouldn’t have mattered anyway…